As a Technical Writer, there are many online resources available to me. The following tools, or software programs, & websites, I personally consider to be my “top-ten”. If you are a writer, I encourage you to scrutinize carefully the tools you use, because they will directly affect your productivity and overall output: 1. Microsoft Office: [...]
Before you embark on a career in writing or written communications, you need to look “within” and be honest with yourself. Writing is NOT an easy career. It requires alot of determination and focus. You have to deal with people who provide only halfway acceptable information, many times, and also, you face incredible expectations on [...]
Over the past several weeks, the primary focus of this blog was devoted to working with word processing software like Microsoft Word 2007 to help you create attractive documents that result from successful interaction with your computer. However, when I received comments and feedback from these posts and compared them against other posts that were [...]
At every step in your Microsoft Word document creation process, you can INSTANTLY know what your options are, with respect to the Menu. How so? Simply RIGHT CLICK your mouse and you will know exactly what you can or cannot do based upon the options that appear in the pop-up window (displayed above). The screen [...]
Freelance Writing, especially in technical arenas, is not easy because work is usually unsteady and many times you have to change knowledge-bases and study extra hard to stay afloat and producing at a level that meets expectations. I personally recommend the following steps to increasing your staying power as a Freelance writer or even in [...]
A really great friend of mine, Balam Abello, a long time computer professional with over thirty years of solid experience, has guided me over the years through my Technical Writing career. This blog-post is simply to tell Balam “thanks” for all of his great support and guidance as I have travailed the challenging IT Career [...]
Dear RSS Feed Subscribers: I apologize for the past three weeks – I have been very busy with a new job and so have had little time to really get this blog off the ground. I will be posting from now on, at least one quality article per week, hopefully two. The purpose of this [...]
Selecting text with your mouse in MS-Office and MS-Word is easy and efficient. I personally enjoy using a mouse because it allows me to use the keyboard for typing and as I think, I write. When I stop writing and perform a text selection activity with the mouse, this gives my mind a temporary rest [...]
In Microsoft Word 2007, the document’s “status” bar is much improved over previous versions of Word and there are many settings that you may choose within the status bar to enhance your document development process. You must “right-click” over the bottom blue bar in MS-Word 2007, that is beneath the actual document, and Word will [...]
